3M's innovation to improve battery life by 40%

Many of us think of when we criticize the shrinking power for your mobile phone or laptop battery, battery innovation will provide mobile phone is always key to keep the dream of a world. And materials giant 3M Company has a new battery innovation, a small tool that can provide 40% of the time to run without being sued (or may be a significant standard battery life).
3M has developed a new battery anode made ​​of silicon, such as: laptop battery . can be used for our gadget conventional lithium-ion batteries in energy density significantly improved (can be stored in a given volume of the amount of energy). Battery anode side and the other cathode, electrolyte. For lithium-ion battery, lithium ions travel from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte to create a chemical reaction, so the electron along the harvest.

Since the 3M Company, has been in the 1990s, battery material, said its silicon anode silicon alloy (lithium-silicon), high energy density of 20% when paired with a standard cathode. However, the 3M Company dedicated the cathode-anode pairs, the silicon anode can provide a battery's energy density by 40%.
Traditional graphite battery anode material of choice, but it is bulky, battery manufacturers as much as possible the energy can not maintain. Silicon anode of the 3M Company has a different material structure and lithium in the cycle, which can accommodate more energy and band. Called The Amprius a start, this is the support of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, VantagePoint Venture Partners and Stanford University, is also on the silicon nanostructure anode.
3M company targeting the consumer electronics manufacturers to focus on battery, the anode, the anode / cathode combination of technology. Chris milkers, 3M electronic marketing materials, business development manager, 3M Company and the original equipment manufacturer, the battery, but declined to disclose the name of any partner.